Dveris watched as the enemy began to retreat. Fortunately Jiang had already protected Chris. He called out an order, "They're retreating! The day is won, leave them be, and allow them to live. Only kill those who try to attack us. Archers, the first one of them to choose to try and attack us, I want dead."

Despite the victory, Dveris did not feel happy. This was hardly a battle, this revealed the true face of all the soldiers. Chris to be willing to attack, Jiang wanting to kill the enemy, but taking into account his men first, Joan to be insane, and so eager for battle that she aattacked even ally.

The pope had still not shown himself...surely this battle would not end without him.

BIC: Freya closed her eyes and made a picture of Chris. She looked at him and her eyes thinned as she saw him out of view she looked over at Allard. Her heart sort of sunk. She sort of widened her eyes because she never really felt guilt before. Freya looked at Tara, perhaps she could confide in her to tell her what's going on with Freya's mind. "Tara..." She said walking over to her. "May I ask you something?"

Joan ceased her song and dance and looked rather glum. Here eyes were wide and had the appearance of cheerfulness, but she was almost tearing.

"They ran away from me, they don't wanna be my friends..."

Tears ran down Joan's cheeks. She was very upset, she had thought she found new friends, but they ran from her. She huffed and slunk into the fort, looking for anyone to play with her. When she found none even more tears were wept, and she sat on the wall staring out at the other army running away.

"Meanie coward butt heads!"

She maturely stuck her tongue out at the fleeing soldiers.

Dolfax disliked being out of battle, and disliked even more knowing a battle was going on that he could have been a help with. He huffed and puffed while setting up the camp, and he patrolled all along the outside, going farther and farther each time, hoping that he'd be able to find some stray soldiers to kill. He heard the sound of several men running this way, actually a large number of men running this way. And he beheld the retreating force of the Magical creatures. He growled furious and dropped to all fours. He sought out Allard. He charged into the crowd searching left and right until he say him pulling up the rear. Dolfax ran on all fours and circled around Allard's horse, coming around to ride beside it.

"I could have helped, this WOULD NOT have happened were I there! Prince, listen to me, you made a mistake, you should have let me rip the Crusaders to shreds. They all would have cowered to my might!"

Dolfax was quite furious with him and his descision. But most importantly of all, he felt unwanted and was angry as a defensive reaction.

::Jiang walked up behind Dveris and places his hand upon his shoulder. The mad look in his eyes faded away and the endless sea of blue returned once again::

Don't worry. evenif they send a thousand soldiers at us, we will never back down. The winner of a battle is the ones who don't turn tail and run away.

::Jiang shot a cold glare at Chris's battered body. Walking over to him, pulling a small leach from hs pouch and placeing it on his largest wound. The leach began to suck all the dead blood cells off of Chris, and replace them with fresh ones, sealing the largest wound before dieing itself::

You were a fool to prance around ungaurded. You could have cost us all more then we had to give.

::jiang's feirce eyes shined brigh with fury as he stared down at the young warrior::

Do not make that mistake again boy

::Turning and walking back to Dveris, Jiang stood quietly, his hood once again his his face from view::

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This isn't about you and your loud mouth,This is about me and my fucking beard.

Allard was sweating profusely as he tredged back out of the lines. As he climbed onto his horse he saw Dolfax come up to him.

"Dolfax...Their forces outnumber ours so much this was mearly a diversion so you could accomplish your goal. Now, Dolfax...go back to the peasants and lead them back to the palace. Fardog and some of his men will stay here and hold off while I pull the remainder of my forces away...And we'll meet up later. If they end up following you instead of my army, you'll have more than you're fair share of blood to spill..."

Allard shook his hand on his brow and looked around. Things were not peachy keen this second.

Freya looked at Dolfax with a grin. "Don't worry..." She was amused at his self hate. "You needn't get over the fact that we lost just ONE battle. There's a war going on..." Freya put a hand on her chin. "Now that you mentioned it, war is mostly about numbers. If we have the greater numbers the greater chances we get for victory." She looked at Allard. "Shall we go to the next undefined town and recruit?"

"Domination, sadly, is nearly as inescapable here thanks to the Crusaders. But why do you hesitate in your speech, noble Freya? Do not feel that I might be offended or shocked by anything you wish to say. You feel like you've sunk?"

Freya looked at Tara with the most innocent of eyes at the moment. "I've never really felt anything other than domination, because the men are under our control and I've never seen a world like this before. My heart quivers everytime the word loss is brought up out of his mouth." She giggled pointing at Dolfax. "But that's only because I feel that I understand what he feels. I do not know what to call it though."

"Sympathy, I believe, is the term you are looking for... when you understand how someone else feels."

*She looked at Dolfax*

"We should get back to the camp soon, only Kirabo is there to protect them." *Tara glanced at her cousin, a comforting look on her face* "The Brotherhood aided us in finding shelter once again... and they have offered your forces the same aid. Brother Mathius in Varnus and Sister Christine in Holbreth are preparing rations and other aid for both the army and the refugees. Be sure to seek them out if you can"

Dveris looked over to Jiang. "Remember what I said before, avoid the pope in future battles. I suspected he would fight here, and I was wrong. However, that does not mean that the pope will simply ignore you."

Dveris looked towards his cavalry. "I need four fast riders. Two are to send a report to His Majesty about the results of this battle. Two more are to report to the pope of our success. Say that casulties are at a minimal. I want each two to stay together, and if you encounter any enemy, avoid them."

Dveris nodded to Jiang, and walked towards his tent, where he would remove this heavy armor, and put away his horse.

::Jiang nodded and followed Dveris toward his tent. Jiang passed Dveris and stopped at the great oak tree just behind Dveris and lept up into it, perching up onto a great branch, takeing a eat and closeing his eyes. Within a few seconds, Jiang was sleeping liek a child in its crib. His expression had turned from firce and violent, to an innocent and carefree look as he slept::